I need this whole topic steelmanned. Parts of it are presumably good and worth discussing, but much of it is lighting my bullshit detectors on fire.
One minor issue, I read the “In Defense of “Spiritual”″, and didn’t find it all that convincing. You may want to change the mystical associations of that word, but wanting isn’t enough, and by using that word you’re paying some associated costs. Honestly, if I try to forget the mystical associations, I have no idea what “spiritual” even means, and, more importantly, I have no confidence that different people use that word to refer to the same things. It sounds like you want to talk about phenomenology, so why not call it that?
I need this whole topic steelmanned. Parts of it are presumably good and worth discussing, but much of it is lighting my bullshit detectors on fire.
One minor issue, I read the “In Defense of “Spiritual”″, and didn’t find it all that convincing. You may want to change the mystical associations of that word, but wanting isn’t enough, and by using that word you’re paying some associated costs. Honestly, if I try to forget the mystical associations, I have no idea what “spiritual” even means, and, more importantly, I have no confidence that different people use that word to refer to the same things. It sounds like you want to talk about phenomenology, so why not call it that?